The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

You need a story to displace a story.

If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.